deb

my new aviary is finally getting build and then i will be moving the budgies and repairing the old aviary.i was thinking about joining the 2 aviaries together to make one big one but now the new one is up i am not sure and still trying to work out safety doors and where to make a room for breeding cabinets but here are some pics of what i have done this weekend.i would love to turn the cubbyhouse into a room for breeding cabinets and storage but the kids will not let me.

i cant wait either till it is their birthdays so we can have lots of fun but i have to wait till october.

Runt get friendly with a barbie doll.

i agree Liv, i think Runt suits red more then blue, know i now what to get him for his birthday,a little red sports car. :hap:

Tweety and Runt are part of the family so they spend alot of time out of their cage playing. they play with the kids alot but i always supervise them when they are out.they love playing with the kids toys and teasing the cats. Hiding in the mess, find us if you can. okay time for a ride, hop on Tweety Hold still,i just want to clean your ear haha you cant reach us bringing a friend, wont help, still cant reach us

they are great photos, it looks like she is getting use to all the space she has.

I have this really funny picture in my head of a budgie playing with a barbie when i wrote my post, lucy was playing with her barbies with the birds and it was funny so i have taken photos and will post them.

my birds only 4 toys hanging in their cage but because i have little kids when Tweety and Runt come out of their cage for free time they play with that ever toys my kids have left on the floor. Lego is their favourite, they love picking up the pieces and running off with them. they are very fond of barbie dolls as well.

That's exactly what I meant. Sorry deb, for highjacking your thread that is fine, you had some interesting points. doctors do get alot of government support where as vets do not and their equipment and medicines are just as expensive.i just think the vet should have asked me which beak needed to be trim and what my budgie was like before making a decision about sedating.

if trimming the beak was not something i felt confident i could do after it was explained to me,i would have spent the money on a vet, my budgies are worth the money but i was brought up on a farm and have been around animals all my life so there are certain things involved with the care of my animals that i feel confident to learn myself.

i was thinking a boy, his cere looks the same as my 4 month old male.

i have four kids, 2 cats, 12 budgies and 5 fish and a husband so it will get spent on food and more food.

i got some great advice of Kaz and she is trimmed now and it did not upset her at all.

she has no problems with eating, my husband loves the yellow face type 2's and would like to breed with her and keep the babies.My two budgies in the house i clip their wings and trim their nails myself and i only do little bits at a time so i have never had a bleed at all.

thanks Kaz, when i look at her beak the end is lighter than the reat of the beak so is it the light part that needs to be trimmed back.she was one i bred and it is a shame i did not know that food could get caught in their beaks.is it possibly to breed with her, could she feed babies.

they are lovely quotes,Maesie. i will be praying for your family for the next few months as like Elly was saying with her dads passing, when my mum die it was the time after the funeral that was the hardest where everywhere you look there are reminders of the person you lost and you realise things will not be the same.

she is a decent size, she has never let it get between her and her food.When i rang the vet i did not tell them what part of her beak needed trimming but just asked for a price for a beak trim and nearly fell off my chair when they told me.

thanks Phoebe, i might ring around the local vets and find one who can show me how to do it.

Sly's is the bottom beak that is too long but she manages to keep it trim by scratching it on the branches in the aviary and with the cuttle bone but it still is longer than it should be because it is effecting the growth of her top beak. i have posted her picture but not sure if you can see what i am talking about.her top beak is blunt because of the bottom beak but that has only recently change.she has not problem eating.what is a stipec pencil.

is it something you can do yourself or should you really take them to a vet.

i remember that post that is why i cannot understand why the avian vet said that they had to sedated my budgie,he quote me $146 to do it.

it is great when you can finally let them out of quarintenee, i have one who has still got 2 weeks to go but she can hear the birds in the avairy and keeps calling out to them. i hope Pheobe settles down and learns to love all the extra space she has.

i have a budgie that needs his beak trim and normally i take my birds to a normal vet who has treat alot of budgies but this time i thought i would go to my closest avian vet. they told me to trim a budgies beak they have to put them asleep, is that true or are they just trying to make a simple procedure more expensive.

that is sad, i hope the budgie makes it.

they are really great photos